envie

See vie.

envie (third-person singular simple present envies, present participle envying, simple past and past participle envied)

1. (obsolete) To vie; to emulate; to strive.

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• nieve

From Old French, from Latin invidia.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vi/

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• Homophones: envient, envies

envie f (plural envies)

1. desire, lust, urge
2. appetite, craving
3. envy
4. birthmark
5. hangnail

envie

1. first-person singular present indicative of envier
2. third-person singular present indicative of envier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envier
5. second-person singular imperative of envier

• avoir envie de
• envier

• envieux

• “envie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• veine, veiné

envie

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of enviar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of enviar

• invie, anvie, enuye, envye

Borrowed from Old French envie, from Latin invidia.

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈviː(ə)/, /ˈɛnviː(ə)/

envie (plural envies)

1. ill-will, hatred, enmity, hostility; spite, malice; an instance of enmity

   Synonym: onde

   • 1378, John of Trevisa, transl., Polychronicon‎, translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1876, page 287:

     ȝit þey haveþ so grete envie to þe Latyns þat þey haveþ wiþ drawe hem out of [þe] subieccioun and obedience of þe chirche of Rome

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2. envy, grudge; hostility; an instance of this feeling

   Synonym: onde

3. harm, injury

   Synonyms: harm, injurie

4. eagerness, enthusiasm

• envien
• envious

• English: envy

• “envie” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

envie

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of enviar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of enviar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of enviar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of enviar